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Beside a road/4.8 mi away/925 ft/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Great Sand Bay Conservation and Recreation Area, Michigan
Beach in Keweenaw County, Michigan44°
48°/36°
Overcast·
Feels like 37°·Moderate breeze 16 mph N
Coming up. Rain is likely this morning, from about 5 AM (86%).
Now. Great Sand Bay Conservation and Recreation Area is 44° and overcast at 5 AM. With the wind it feels like 37°. The dew point is 42°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the north at 16 mph, gusting to 29 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 39° by 7 AM, under a mostly clear sky.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 62°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 55°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 20 mph. Frost is possible tomorrow morning, a low of 36°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 7:03 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:34 PM. The next full Moon is Monday, Oct 26. After dark, look for Saturn, bright in the east-southeast. A planet shines with a steady light where the stars around it twinkle. The Orionids meteor shower is active, peaking around Oct 21: at its peak, up to about 20 meteors an hour can be seen from a dark site. The sky is forecast to stay clear: a good night to look up. The day is 10 hours 51 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
9Air quality
93%Humidity
100%Cloud
Now
5:00 AM
44feels37
86%
16mph
Today
Oct 16
4836
62%
27mph
Sat
Oct 17
5536
20mph
Sun
Oct 18
6141
19mph
Mon
Oct 19
5844
mostly clear day
Tue
Oct 20
5841
mostly clear day
Wed
Oct 21
6244
mostly clear day
Thu
Oct 22
6048
26%
44°
48°36°
55°36°
61°41°
58°44°
58°41°
62°44°
60°48°
As of 5:00 AM in Great Sand Bay Conservation and Recreation Area, Michigan.
Air quality
The air at Great Sand Bay Conservation and Recreation Area
Index 9, good, led by fine particles. Read at 5 AM from its reporting area, Western Upper Peninsula (MI), 70 miles off.
9Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)9Good-
The days ahead
Good each day through Today, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 12, good.
GoodModerate
- 12YesterdayOct 15
- GoodTodayOct 16
Smoke, the next 46 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sun 2 AM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Great Sand Bay Conservation and Recreation Area
0.64 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Fri 4 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.64in
- Last 3 days
- 0.64in
Visibility
How far you can see at Great Sand Bay Conservation and Recreation Area, the next 46 hours
Visibility stays 5 miles or more through Sun 2 AM, lowest 5 miles Fri 5 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Facing WNW 289°
From above: the edge, the break, the view
Surf and swim
The waves at buoy 45001, 46.9 mi away.
Waves at buoy 45001, Mid Superior
- Wave height
- 3.3 ft
- Period
- 4 s
- From
- NE (36°)
- Swell
- 0.3 ft at 8 s from NNE
- Wind waves
- 3.6 ft at 4 s from NE
- Water
- 49 °F
- Read
- Fri 3:50 AM
- Distance
- 46.9 mi
Wave height is the significant height: the mean of the highest third of the waves. The period is the time between the waves carrying the most energy.
Every hour, last 24 hours
| Time | Wave height | Period | From |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fri 3:50 AM | 3.3 ft | 4 s | NE (36°) |
| Fri 2:50 AM | 2.6 ft | 3 s | N (8°) |
| Fri 1:50 AM | 1.6 ft | 5 s | SE (128°) |
| Fri 12:50 AM | 1.3 ft | 5 s | SE (135°) |
| Thu 11:50 PM | 1.3 ft | 5 s | SE (134°) |
| Thu 10:50 PM | 1.6 ft | 5 s | SE (139°) |
| Thu 9:50 PM | 1.6 ft | 5 s | SE (137°) |
| Thu 8:50 PM | 2.3 ft | 5 s | SE (136°) |
| Thu 7:50 PM | 2.6 ft | 5 s | SE (141°) |
| Thu 6:50 PM | 3.0 ft | 5 s | SE (134°) |
| Thu 4:50 PM | 3.0 ft | 5 s | SSE (157°) |
| Thu 3:50 PM | 3.3 ft | 5 s | SSE (157°) |
| Thu 2:50 PM | 2.6 ft | 5 s | S (169°) |
| Thu 1:50 PM | 3.0 ft | 4 s | SSE (161°) |
| Thu 12:50 PM | 2.6 ft | 4 s | SSE (167°) |
| Thu 11:50 AM | 1.6 ft | 4 s | SSE (165°) |
| Thu 10:50 AM | 1.6 ft | 3 s | SSE (154°) |
| Thu 9:50 AM | 1.3 ft | 3 s | SSE (156°) |
| Thu 8:50 AM | 1.0 ft | 3 s | SSE (155°) |
| Thu 7:50 AM | 1.0 ft | 3 s | SSE (151°) |
| Thu 6:50 AM | 1.0 ft | 2 s | SSE (149°) |
| Thu 5:50 AM | 0.7 ft | - | - |
| Thu 4:50 AM | 0.3 ft | - | - |
| Thu 3:50 AM | 0.3 ft | - | - |
Beach
- County
- Keweenaw County
- State
- Michigan
- Latitude
- 47.4453° N
- Longitude
- 88.2167° W
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Great Sand Bay Conservation and Recreation Area, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 4.8 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
At an airfield/16.0 mi away/607 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Trap Rock River Near Lake Linden04043050
At a river or reservoir gauge/16.9 mi away/622 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station FW2952FW2952
In a volunteer observer's own ground/17.6 mi away/1,212 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Eagle Harbor 6.0 EMI-KW-1
In a volunteer observer's own ground/8.6 mi away/613 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
KearsargeKSGM4
At a cooperative observer's station/15.0 mi away/1,118 ft/- ft from here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Kearsarge (KSGM4), 15.0 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 08:00. measured daily
Elsewhere in Michigan
66 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
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Near Great Sand Bay Conservation and Recreation Area
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Eagle Harborcommunity, 3 mi
- Eagle Rivercommunity, 4 mi
- Mount Bohemiaski area, 10 mi
- Mohawkcommunity, 12 mi
- Fultoncommunity, 12 mi
- Ahmeekvillage, 13 mi
- Copper Cityvillage, 14 mi
- Copper Harbortown, 15 mi
- Calumetvillage, 18 mi
- Lauriumvillage, 18 mi
- Lake Superiorfeature, 19 mi
- Lake Lindenvillage, 19 mi